What I’m about to tell you will blow your mind. Paypal hates OpenCamp. In fact, Paypal hates it’s customers in general, or so it seems. Being a long time Paypal customer I have had many run ins over the years with them. Sometimes personally, and sometimes when helping a customer.
PayPal hates OpenCamp
OpenCamp organizer John Pozadzides posted on his blog at OpenCamp today that Paypal had put restrictions on his Paypal account. The story goes that PayPal considers events and event organizers to be risky business. John got a call from “Kathleen” at Paypal, an anonymous person with no last name and no email (a typical Paypal retarded process). Kathleen NoLastName told John that “[PayPal would] rather close an account than have to eat a couple hundred dollars in disputed charges”.
John feels like one of two things is going on:
- Someone at PayPal is purposely targeting OpenCamp for some unknown reason. A concept which may be hypothetically possible, but which I find unlikely.
- PayPal HATES event organizers. They have decided as a corporation that they do not want to work with organizers of any kind of event, and they are actively working to try to make those people’s lives hell.
I tend to agree with the second option. PayPal wants to make being an event organizer dislike PayPal so much that they go elsewhere.
PayPal hates its Customers
While I wish this was just a problem for OpenCamp, the truth is that Paypal hates all of its customers. I had really hoped that when PayPal was purchased by ebay that things would changed. However, it seems PayPal has gotten worse. In 2001 I was running a web hosting 
company. I used PayPal to bill my customers. One of my customers was running an “adult website”. Somehow by billing my customer’s PayPal account, mine was associated with being in a “bad neighborhood” and when his account was closed, my funds were locked. It took me almost six months of emails, phone calls and finally a letter from an attorney to get my funds released.
PayPal could have easily looked at my case and said “Oops. We made a mistake. This guy is not associated with this other guy, and he’s not using his PayPal account to sell “adult materials.” Rather they insisted on persecuting me like a criminal of the system. When my attorney threatened a suit, the giggy was up and my account was restored. But why? Why did it take that measure? PayPal hates its customers.
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